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On May 21, 2025, the European Commission filed a proposal to postpone the implementation of the due diligence obligations in Regulation...

Philip L. Hinerman’s case was featured in the "Bloomberg BNA" article, "Exceeding State Standards Not ‘Imminent and Substantial Endangerment.’"

On September 13, 2013, the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania upheld the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (USEPA) authority to establish a final total maximum daily load (TMDL) for the 64,000 square foot Chesapeake Bay Watershed.

In Waste Management, Inc. v. AIG Specialty Insurance Co, ___ F.3d ___, No. 19-20674, 2020 WL 5268504 (Sept. 4. 2020), the Fifth Circuit affirmed summary judgment for AIG Specialty Insurance Company, holding it had no duty ...

On June 27, 2018, the Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA") submitted its final Management Standards for Hazardous Waste Pharmaceuticals rule ("Pharm Rule") to the Office of Management and Budget...

It does not take much to create a partnership under California's Uniform Partnership Act of 1994, which defines a partnership as "the association of two or more persons to carry on as coowners...

Outpatient Surgery magazine reports that a number of surgical device and supply manufacturers has teamed with waste management and recycling companies to form the Healthcare Plastics Recycling Council (HPRC).

As part of a far-reaching rulemaking effort primarily designed to clampdown on meat and poultry processors that indirectly discharge their waste waters to municipal treatment facilities...

The Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has announced plans to revise its "Remediation Guidelines for Petroleum Contaminated Sites in Maine" issued on December 1, 2009.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA") has proposed a new regulation that would ban all sewage discharges to the marine waters along California’s coastline from large cruise ships and most other large ocean-going ships.

A package of bills passed by the Michigan Legislature allows for a number of industrial by-products to be beneficially reused.

On August 5, 2025, U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens (D-MI) introduced the Plastic Health Research Act (HR 4903), a bill intended to deepen the federal government's understanding of the health impacts of plastic exposure...

Joining a growing list of western and New England states, Maine has just enacted a paint collection program for "post-consumer" paint.

In December 2025, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC) finalized regulations establishing a Mandatory Greenhouse Gas...

Some jurisdictions have enacted bans, and others have instituted charges or taxes that are remitted to the government.

In an exclusive interview with Inside EPA last month, Rachel Jacobson, who recently left her post as the Obama administration's top Defense Department lawyer on environmental matters

The comment period on EPA's proposed Management Standards for Hazardous Waste Pharmaceuticals closed on December 24.

Q&A With Waller's Ed Callaway